*Today is my Birthday!*

WOOHOOO! It's my birthday today and I am now officially 17 years old. However, I won't be partying today, I have a university fair to go to (bah!), but I can party all I want next weekend! YAY! Yesterday, I went to dinner with my dad's side of the relatives, but it wasn't my "birthday dinner", it was just a regular dinner where my cousin brought her little kid (Rachel who is now 3), and everyone is "awwing" and smiling at her. Man, sometimes I wish I was the youngest in the family again, but I'm not. I then start to realize, not only am I not the youngest in the family anymore, I am also not of the latest generation! Rachel is the start of the next generation in this family's history and I am in the second generation! Holy moly, I feel old now. As the years go by, I will soon be the oldest generation in the family. That's just a scary thought. My sister and I were debating whether or not Rachel would turn out to be more like us (being more "western" than "eastern", or like my HK cousin put it a "banana"), or being more like my other cousin (who is 100% Chinese, but can manage to speak English and do well in school). We have come to the conclusion that Rachel would turn out to be more like my cousin, because a lot of my former Chinese classmates who were born in Canada (like Rachel) knew more about Chinese society and stuff than us (who were born in HK and moved here at a very early age). Then we wonder, why is that? It may be because of the fact that parents want their kids to be more Chinese and not get assimilated into western culture by exposing them to more Chinese things than western things. I mean, I don't even know who the hell "Edison" is, or "F4" until I went to HK and found out they were the "hot guys" (there are hot Chinese guys?) at the time. I don't know why my sister and I turned out so differently than other Chinese kids since we were both exposed to lots of Chinese culture, but I guess it had to do with school and how we enjoyed speaking English more than speaking Chinese..Thus a BANANA! Don't you love being compared to fruit?